All-new Toyota Vios launching second half this year in Indonesia, CBU from Thailand – reports

It’s going to be a busy year for Toyota in Indonesia. The market leader is preparing to launch the Agya, Etios and Liva budget cars in the populous nation this year, but it has been revealed that the all-new, next-generation Toyota Vios will join the trio. The expected date of arrival in Indonesia is the second half of 2013, and the sedan will be imported CBU from Thailand, Kompas reports.

“Look forward to it, the latest design Vios is really good,” said Johnny Darmawan, president director of PT Toyota Astra Motor. Kompas speculates that the latest Vios will be powered by an improved version of the 1.5 litre four-cylinder VVT-i engine from the current car, which is very popular as a taxi in Jakarta.

You might have seen some spyshots of “the new Vios” uncovered and if those grainy shots are to be believed, the next-gen Vios will be bigger and sharper-looking than the current car, with a V-shaped nose similar to that on the production next-gen Corolla Altis.

Since the Indonesian launch is scheduled for the second half of 2013, it is reasonable to predict that the B-segment sedan will arrive here either at the tail-end of this year or in early 2014.

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Sam Loo has really stinked up the name of Toyota. By bitching about Hyundai and Kia, it has backfired and creadted countless of psuedo Sam Loos. And each Sam Loo now is spreading the “good news” to everyone about how
UMW is comprmising people’s lifes just to reap more profit. That day, a newcomer to this site also advised me not to ever buy Toyota because a commentator named Sam Loo advised readers about the current batch not having Stability Control. Thank you Sam Loo for eating and shitting in your own plate!

Sam Loo is such a loser. See, yiur malicious intent has and is backfiring on you! Next time, be fair. Learn to play fair. Don’t just run down a brand just because its eating a mega huge market share of Toyota. Now, everybody knows that Toyota compromises on the life and safety of its passengers just to merely save on cost and reap more profits.

That is the old me. Now I am starting fresh. I am going to play clean. I am sorry in the past to have bad mouth other brands RV. I know now, by playing dirty, I have made my own brand , Toyota, fall in disrepute. So, let me begin today by saying, let’s all play fair.

What they cant sell in Indonesia,
Last january they sold cars 28 % higher compare to january 2012. And please noted: this number exclude cars sold in grey market (which also huge)
T Vios is commonly use by taxi operator all over indonesia. Biggest operator there is Blue Bird group with approximately 56.000 taxi fleet with T Vios as the main brand (others such as c/e class MB and busses). Per year, they aggresively increase fleet around 5000 unit all over the archipelago.
No wonder Japs carsmakers are so serious expand their biz in this country.

I honestly, and feel rather guilty admitting it, that I can’t wait to see it launch. I won’t be one of neigh sayer and predict the lack features and spec that most Paultanese like to do, but I have a hunch it will have the same if not better spec.

Having recently sat the oh-so-hated Camry XV50, I really can’t fault the car much, It’s comfortable, NVH is excellent and the 4-speed power train gets the job done easily. Although lack of VSC is quite noticeable, but it still is heavy and feel planted and confident. And a recent chat reveals a rumor that Toyota were having some problems with their VSC and were’t able to solve it, therefore instead risking it, they omitted it completely as they continue to find the fault.

Dislike it as much to your desire, but car prices are going up [except maybe hybrids]. I remember somewhere that a 99′ Camry cost around 110k. The preve is more expensive than the persona, the Elantra is more expensive than the last, and so is the Rio.

But yeah, they omitt the VSC, which I still admit and agree fully is stupid, but everything else is hard to fault, It’s a comfortable, easy to live with, uncles car.Besides VSC, I can’t really think what they did’t omitt. they did throw in a better 6-speeder and GPS+Reverse camera and that after-thought-LED. BTW how much was the increase? I kinda forgotten.

camry was sold at 118K in 1997, before govt increase taxes up to 300% for CBU cars and all other segments.

i was working with UMW at that time. new price went to +-160K for that first gen SXV10 Camry.

when the 2nd gen Camry SXV20 launched, price remains the same.

same goes to 3rd gen ACV30, of cos with 2 model variety price range from 140k to 165k.

but UMW maintained the prices of Camry with the last ACV40 camry 2.0 and 2.4.

only when they launched the ACV50, the price was increased to 185K due to marketing strategies … like bigger 2.5 engine, 6 speed AT which is head to head with Mazda 6 and Nissan Teana and also VW Passat

but looking back at history, UMW did well in maintaining Camry prices for a period of more than 10 years but i would rather thank the govt for fixing the prices instead. you know, camry cannot be as cheap as perdana V6, and corolla/vios cannot be cheaper than waja/persona… those sort of things.

Car price in a country is influenced by a lot of factors.
Not going to list them all, but just say FX.
20 years ago, in Australia, you can get a brand new Hyundai small car ~ AUD12k. Now, you can get a Hyundai small car ~ AUD13k with much better spec :lol:
Well, we decide to stay in Malaysia, just have to work harder and smarter :)

Finally got to reply, you, can’t seem to get into this article since afternoon. Anyways, it’s a rumor, like the loch ness monster, it has something to do with that acceleration problem in the States. And if they take it out in the States or Europe, they can’t sell it as it’s not reached the legal safety requirement. shine on, Malaysia.

Cool stories by salesman can never be trusted. I’ve heard Savvy engine built by Renault F1. Myvi use latest 4-speed auto while all proton still use “3-speed”. Suzuki Swift can do 30km/L. Buy Honda can bring luck (hahahaha). Et cetera.

VSC is very common technology that has been in use for many years. The Camry elsewhere also comes with it as standard. Toyota just found out that VSC doesn’t matter to their customers, so they removed it.

u guys are all serious asking for traction control and trillion speed gearboxes for a vios???????
btw vios in the middle east are all basic versions…which means manual windows and NO rpm meter….new design looks longer and narrower….

If the new Vios still without most important safety feature of VSC we may opt for other marque. we do have Kia Rio, Fiesta, Suzuki Swift or Chevy.

The problem is we always based on sensible: after few years the brand that gave best value for our hard earned money is Toyota. The easiest to find parts also T, not expensive, decent fuel consumption etc.

Unless the Korean were dare enough to bring small diesel with 88mpg not 88kmg the status quo of Toyota still intact.

If we can teach Toyota and abstain from buying and influence others too, then we can give Toyota a lesson: never underestimated buyers’ safety requirement. Hardly buyers really understand the safety whether passive or active in a car.

For me it’s simple l only buy car with VSC TCS in future. Not only Toyota, Nissan too hardly come with this feature. If NISSAN dare to beat Vios-Corolla duo, new Sylphy or known as Pulsar in Australia is Nissan 1.6 best bet to kill Toyota.

Priced it under RM99,999 (since the cheapest in Thailand just RM74,000 manual and RM77,000 automatic) and VSC ISOFIX made standard across the board then the Nissan will cannibalized some Vios market share.

Unfairly and unfortunately to own a Vios it’s not cheap in Malaysia, probably it’s 9 years loan, very hard earn money, monthly payment, that partly end up in cronies pocket. The most reliable car, easy to maintain, for at least 9 years will get the most sales.

Again, it’s not only the slumber attitude of UMW that reap us, many CBU cars in Malaysia are sold at lower specs. You guys’re clearer on this. Recently, Kia RIO UB sold in our country is only available in 1.4 Gamma engine, but on other countries i.e Australia, they got more option like 1.6 Gamma GDi; in China, they got Gamma II MPI version with dual CVVT … etc.
Same applies to Honda Jazz Hybrid, Toyota Camry … and even our Proton Preeve get less feature than oversea version.
This has become a norm in Malaysian market that sub-par treatment is offered. But our car price is not any lower than our neighbor countries … we all know this’s due to gov’s tax.
So, there we go the actual root cause!

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